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Paperboard Can Handle Applicator

This modular paperboard can handle applicator accommodates latest in aluminum can and beverage trends.

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At PACK EXPO Chicago in 2018, WestRock began to demonstrate its CanCollar products, which constituted a paperboard can handle for beverages, craft beer, and canned craft spirits. This was one of a handful of departures from traditional HDPE can handles that we witnessed at recent PACK EXPOs. Application at the time was fairly manual, but that seems to have changed in a big way now in 2020.

At PACK EXPO Connects this week, the company featured its modular can handle application machine, capable of 600 can/min speeds, that is intended to be integrated into existing canning lines and either run parallel to, or replace, more traditional can handle applicators.

The most basic can handle is CanCollar Eco, the most economical of the options with a minimalist design that, in form and function, accomplishes the same task as traditional can handles. The basic or core Fortuna module accomplishes this.

Optional modules can be added to the base applicator machine, such as one for PremCollar Pure, a can handle format that adds some vertical paperboard billboarding space to the paperboard collar, allowing brands to print messaging on the paperboard. It also can ask as a physical barcode mask feature. A third option is CanCollar Shield, which brings coverage to the top of each of the cans, a hygienic feature some breweries look for. These two upgrade modules can be delivered on day-one with the purchase of the machine or be retrofitted as in integration later in the machine lifecycle.

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